EvangeList Digest Tuesday, December 8 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1333
In this issue:
Tidbit - Mac Sightings - NYPD Blue and Disney Sweepstakes Tidbit - Tim Allen Pushes Mac At Bug's Life Premiere Tidbit - BMac to Host Castlewood Systems - Just ORB It Tidbit - IconsPLUS - Comic Book, Sci-Fi, TV and Movie Desktop I PR - Holiday Voodoo Giveaway At ClassMac.Com! $$ - Peanut Press E-Book PR - Icon Tools 1.6 Released Tidbit - ELP Thanks Apple Tidbit - Running a Mac Business In a Windows World Job - Position Available For SDE (Pacific Northwest) PR - Waves in Motion releases oAzium Charts plug-in for FileMaker Pro $$ - Stocking Stuffer Steve Book Tidbit - MacOS Themes Depository
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:06:58 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Mac Sightings - NYPD Blue and Disney Sweepstakes
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: "Bill Cawthon" bcawthon@amerapc.com>
On the December 1 episode of NYPD Blue (the first episode following the "death" of Jimmy Smits), a Power Macintosh spends a fair amount of time on screen as a backdrop to a conversation between Det. Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and his D.A. wife, Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence). The shots are nicely framed to show the desktop system and monitor.
Disney is hosting a contest at their website to celebrate the release of "A Bugs Life." The grand prize? One of four iMacs. To find out more about the contest go to the "Bugs Life Sweepstakes" site.
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:06:59 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Tim Allen Pushes Mac At Bug's Life Premiere
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: "Kat Sat" katsat@aloha.net>
On a live Disney Online broadcast of the world premiere of A Bug's Life, an interchange between the emcee and Tim Allen prominently featured the Mac. It is about 57:40 into the broadcast.
MC: We're live on the internet. Can you just wave to all the surfers out there?
Allen: (Allen looks directly at camera.) I hope they're Mac people. Because this is Pixar, baby. It's all about Mac.
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:07:00 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - BMac to Host Castlewood Systems - Just ORB It
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: "Jonathan A. Duke" jonathan@bc.edu>
Wednesday - December 9 BMac to host Castlewood Systems-Just ORB It!
BMac, the Boston Macintosh Users Group, will host Castlewood Systems representatives and preview the ORB, the new high-performance removable media drive. This meeting is the premiere of the ORB for Macintosh.
The ORB tour stops at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Building E-51, Room 345, from 7PM to 9PM. Building E51 is on the corner of Memorial Drive and Wadsworth Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There is no charge for this meeting.
Contact: Our web site at <http://bmac.home.ml.org>, via email at <jonathan@bc.edu> or by phone at 781-444-4477
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:07:14 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - IconsPLUS - Comic Book, Sci-Fi, TV and Movie Desktop I
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: "IconsPLUS" staff@iconsplus.com>
We are proud to release the new redesign of the IconsPLUS web site. An evolution from the previous site, this new site improves design and navigation while retaining the best elements of its predecessor.
IconsPLUS is one of the best sources for people icons based on comic book, sci-fi, tv, movie and other pop culture characters. IconsPLUS features our signature style PeopleFace icons, hand-rendered bust depictions of all your favorite characters, perfect for decorating your computer desktop. In addition to desktop icons, you will also find great desktop patterns, desktop pictures and fonts all free for private non-commercial non-web use. So if you're looking for some cool pop culture graphics to spice up your desktop, then IconsPLUS is the place to visit.
<http://www.iconsplus.com>
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:07:01 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Holiday Voodoo Giveaway At ClassMac.Com!
This announcement is from:
<mailto: "Shay Fulton" sfulton@classmac.com>
With Christmas time here again, ClassMac.com is giving away a few fun toys for the holidays. Our newest contest awards two lucky winners a Mac Voodoo Package, consisiting of a Village Tronic MacMagic Voodoo 3D graphics card and Graphic Simulations' F/A-18 Korea game! Two pairs and two winners!
We invite everyone to stop by the site and enter. Two winners will be drawn from all entries, and the contest closes on January 10, 1999. All rules and information (as well as entry form) can be found on the web site listed below.
<http://www.classmac.com/contest.html>
What is ClassMac.com? ClassMac.com provides free services to the Macintosh user, including i-Escrow Safety free Mac-only classified ads, reviews, and more. The newly improved ad system contains hundreds of user-posted ads and speedy CGI power. After entering the contest, please take a look at the rest of the site.
Thank you for your support and your time,
Shay Fulton - ClassMac.com
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:07:08 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: $$ - Peanut Press E-Book
This special offer is from:
<mailto: "info" info@peanutpress.com>
As a Mac software engineer (UULite, etc.) and subscriber to the Evangelist for many years, I'd like to extend an offer to all Evangelist members for a discount of $1.00 off each Peanut Press book purchased at our site <http://www.peanutpress.com> between now and January 1, 1999.
Peanut Press publishes contemporary electronic books from publisher frontlists for handheld devices. We currently offer these books for the 3Com Palm Pilot and will soon be offering them for the Newton as well.
Our catalog includes such popular books as:
Slant (Greg Bear) A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge) Mother of Storms (John Barnes) Someplace to Be Flying (Charles de Lint) The Runelords (David Farland) Lord of the Isles (David Drake)
and many, many more.
All Peanut Press software is developed on Macintoshes by Mac software engineers. All our books are produced on Macintoshes.
To take advantage of this special offer, please enter the code MACEVANG in the box labeled "promo code" on our Secure Checkout page.
Enjoy the end of 1998!
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:07:10 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - Icon Tools 1.6 Released
This announcement is from:
<mailto: "Alberto Ricci" alberto@riccisoft.com>
Riccisoft and Alessandro Levi Montalcini just released version 1.6 of Icon Tools, an extremely innovative tool which lets users personalize their desktops by modifying any icon in many creative ways.
With a single click, Icon Tools can copy, paste, rotate, flip, reduce, or apply special effects to file, folder and disk icons. It can also create thumbnail preview icons for pictures and movies of any kind!
Version 1.6 not only takes advantage of the new 32-bit icons under Mac OS 8.5, but it also sports an editor for 8-bit icon masks! You will now be able to create your own translucent icons and make anti-aliased or shaded areas blend perfectly with the background.
Breaking the barriers of the Finder's labels, Icon Tools provides a unique Icon Stamps feature: instantly mark your documents and applications with tags, symbols, markers, labels, widgets of any kind - more than a hundred are included in the package, but you can make your own stamps too!
Even on crowded hard disks and cluttered desktops, Icon Tools will let you identify important files at a glance. Mark documents to be printed with a small printer stamp, files to be e-mailed with an e-mail symbol, tear apart the icons of obsolete documents... the possibilities are endless.
Icon Tools also lets users easily add Icon Frames to any existing icon. Adding backgrounds or making folder and disk icons for your favorite applications is easier than ever. Included are frames for making custom CD-ROM or Zip disk icons with no effort!
Icon Tools is a $15 shareware Contextual Menu Manager plug-in for Mac OS 8.
Icon Tools is a CNET/Download.com Top Pick and Most Popular item! You can download it now from:
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:07:13 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - ELP Thanks Apple
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: "Peter C.S. Adams" adamsp@cs.umb.edu>
I just got Emerson, Lake & Palmer's new live album "Then & Now" which features classic live tracks from the memorable Cal Jam concert in 1974. ELP has long been a technological vanguard, and wrote a song in 1973 about a computer run amok against a hero who sings "No computer stands in my way ... let the maps of war be drawn!" -- obviously predicting the rise of Microsoft and Windows. :->
Among the best parts was the following in the liner notes: "Mixed in studios, homes, hotels, and backstage across the US to an Otari DAT recorder. Pre-mastered on Digidesign Pro Tools 888/24 using Apple computers."
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:07:10 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Running a Mac Business In a Windows World
This tidbit is from:
<mailto: webmaster@applelinks.com>
Working in a Cross-platform World: Email
By Paul Shields <http://applelinks.pair.com/business_mac/email.shtml>
As the Internet becomes more pervasive, users are exchanging more and more data everyday. Companies often send proposals to clients via email for review and response. In last week's column, we looked at ways to deal with files across platforms including translation and emulators. While dealing with PC files on floppies is relatively easy, navigating the standards for exchanging files via email is difficult at times. Getting the file received via email into a usable state can be a challenge.
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 08:07:12 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Job - Position Available For SDE (Pacific Northwest)
This job offer is from:
<mailto: "Dave_Parkhurst" davep@edtech.com>
Education Technology, Inc., the Apple Authorized Sales Agent for the Pacific Northwest, is currently interviewing candidates for an Solutions Development Executive. This person, living in Washington or Oregon, will be responsible for demonstrating Apple's curriculum software solutions to schools. Education experience is highly desireable. Excellent presentation skills and customer interaction skills are required.
A job description is posted at:
<http://www.edtech.com/career/>
Work from your home office, travel from throughout the Pacific Northwest is required.
Interested parties can submit their resume, cover letter and compensation history to:
Education Technology, Inc. ATTN: CA Sales Positions Email: <davep@edtech.com> FAX: 253-474-3550
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:05:42 -0800 From: Guy Kawasaki <Kawasaki@garage.com> Subject: PR - Waves in Motion releases oAzium Charts plug-in for FileMaker Pro
This announcement is from:
Vince, vince@wmotion.com
WAVES IN MOTION RELEASES OAZIUM CHARTS PLUG-IN FOR FILEMAKER PRO
Easy-to-build graphs change the way people look at their data
Contact:
Vince Menanno, Waves in Motion Phone: 416-760-9959 E-mail: info@wmotion.com Web: http://www.wmotion.com Sales by WorqSmart: 602-956-7080
TORONTO, Canada. December 5, 1998. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a well designed graph is sometimes the only thing that can help you make sense of all that information in your FileMaker database. The problem, however, has always been the great difficulty in building these graphs.
Until now.
oAzium Charts is a new FileMaker plug-in from Waves in Motion that lets you easily transform your database into any of a number of predefined chart styles, display your graphs the way you want them to look, and even publish them on the web.
iSurveys.com, for example, relies on oAzium Charts to provide online visual feedback to both administrators and the participants in the online surveys they host. "You certainly see information in a very different way when it's presented visually," says Dan Donaldson, head of the iSurveys development team. "We've been very pleased with the results and look forward to using this powerful and easy-to-use utility in other projects we're developing."
Gone are the days of complicated scripts, fiddly workarounds, and painfully slow rendering times. oAzium Charts does the job quickly, in three simple steps.
"For a long time FileMaker Pro users have wanted an easy and effective way to create and display charts within their database files." says Rich Coulombre, president of The Support Group. "With the new oAzium charting plug-in, we now have a great solution to offer our customers."
oAzium Charts supports the following types of graphs in a number of different configurations:
- -- Bar charts
- -- Pie charts
- -- Line graphs
- -- Scatter plots
- -- High-low charts
And oAzium Charts ships with a complete set of examples and documentation to help you add visual impact to your FileMaker databases. With oAzium Charts, you're free to try out different colors, fonts, and symbols. Define a grid, or add a background image for your important presentations. It's easy to experiment when it's the plug-in doing all of the work.
You can download a demo version of oAzium Charts or purchase single-user license right now for $99.00 US from the Waves In Motion website:
<http://www.wmotion.com/products.html>
Waves in Motion also offers special licenses to developers and sites who wish to use the oAzium Charts plug-in in their own FileMaker solutions. For all their products, Waves in Motion offers a demo version you can try before you make your purchase. The demo version of oAzium Charts offers all the functionality of the full version except that it operates for only one hour at a time.
With oAzium Charts for both Macintosh and Windows and on the web, FileMaker will never be the same again.
Waves in Motion is the developer of a growing collection of FileMaker solutions and plug-ins, including Script Scheduler, Simply Surveys--The Dragon, and the Analyzer. They are active members of the FileMaker Solution Alliance and the Apple Developer Program, and have been consulting and developing FileMaker solutions since 1990.
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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:06:57 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: $$ - Stocking Stuffer Steve Book
This special offer is from:
<mailto: SHowerter@aol.com>
The "Stocking Stuffer Steve Book: from Amelio to iMac" is now available at a special price for members of the Evangelist Digest. For only $7.95 (including shipping) you can amuse your Mac friends and/or annoy the Dark Side with an illustrated look at Steve's first year back at Apple.
Based on the AppleCart columns for My Mac Magazine <http://www.mymac.com> and the Desktop Dilettante articles for MacTimes Network <http://www.mactimes.com>, the book is a light look at the recent Mac scene through prose, poetry, parody and parable. It reflects the emotional highs and lows that we've all felt, from the dark days of uncertainty to the beginning of a new bright future for Apple and the Mac. It's the perfect holiday gift for that special Mac someone.
For more information go to <http://www.mymac.com/applecart/>. The Stocking Stuffer Steve Book ad is courtesy of Tim Robertson, publisher of My Mac Magazine.
Please send check or money order to: APPLECART INK 6021 SW 29th Street Suite A 248 Topeka KS 66614
Be sure and mention Evangelist for your special price of $7.95.
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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:06:58 -0800 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - MacOS Themes Depository
I have started a MacOS Themes depository. MacOSThemes.net will gladly host themes for download should public releases become available. In the meantime, we have a large selection of soundsets stored for your enjoyment.
You can find us at <http://www.macosthemes.net> [yes, the .net is important here] and the soundset can be found at <http://www.macosthemes.net/sounds.html>
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